Sharing a tweet in Android

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I'm developing an Android Application and I want to publish a tweet in twitter. My problem is that I don't know how I do to create a tweet in an android app. I searched for information and I find two possible libraries that may be good for tweet content, the libraries are JTwitter and Twitter4J. When I search the information too people say that OAuth it's difficult, and I don't understand nothing of the OAuth. If it's possible I want to share an image with the tweet, the image can be a Bitmao object? And, how I do to insert in the predeterminated tweet this image?

Thanks for the time spended

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 09 '12 at 15:57

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I've personally used Twitter4J with great success. However, there is an easier way to share that will open your app up to many more social networks.

You can use a share Intent. This blog has a great tutorial that walks you through every step. To include an image, you would use sharingIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uri), where uri is the path of the image on the device (content URI or a direct file path).

answered May 09 '12 at 15:57

Jason Robinson

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Thank you Jason for the fast answer, but I don't undersatnd how you can tweet with your application. – Gabriel Esteban May 09 '12 at 16:00
In my actual app only I want to share on twitter. It's a goo blog and I have another aplication that maybe I include the method in them, but inthe actual only I want tu publish in twitter – Gabriel Esteban May 09 '12 at 16:04
So which part of the implementation of TWitter4J are you stuck on then? – Jason Robinson May 09 '12 at 17:41

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

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The best way that i found to solve this problem is using a sharing intent. In the next link you will have another question with this solution, the only problem is that only work with the official client of twitter.

How to force Share Intent to open a specific app?

So, with that code you will be able to publish the tweet you want using the twitter client.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

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answered Apr 13 '13 at 11:34

Gabriel Esteban

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Sharing a tweet in Android

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